All That Is explores a life unfolding in a world on the brink of change The life is that of Philip Bowman & we see his formative experiences as a young naval officer in battles off Okinawa his post-war career as a book editor in New York his trips to the great European cities
- for publishing parties in London romantic holidays in Paris But despite his success what eludes him is love His first marriage goes bad another fails to happen finally he meets a woman who enthrals him before setting him on a course he could never imagine for himself James Salter's dazzling seductive & haunting novel offers a fiercely intimate account of the great shocks & grand pleasures of being alive
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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play Bob Fosse&s semi-autobiographical film celebrates show business stripped of glamour or giddy illusions Joe Gideon (Roy Scheider) is at the top of the heap one of the most successful directors & choreographers in musical theatre But he can feel his world slowly collapsing around him His obsession with work has almost destroyed his personal life & only his bottles of pills keep him going As he struggles to right his relationships with his ex-wife his lover & his daughter he also has to cope with his failing health Soon it&s clear he&ll have to make a choice his art--or his life A talented director & choreographer of both film & stage Fosse was perhaps best known for helming the film version of CABARET & creating the musical CHICAGO Age Rating 15 ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Bob Fosse&s semi-autobiographical film celebrates show business stripped of glamour or giddy illusions Joe Gideon (Roy Scheider) is at the top of the heap one of the most successful directors & choreographers in musical theatre But he can feel his world slowly collapsing around him His obsession with work has almost destroyed his personal life & only his bottles of pills keep him going As he struggles to right his relationships with his ex-wife his lover & his daughter he also has to cope with his failing health Soon it&s clear he&ll have to make a choice his art--or his life A talented director & choreographer of both film & stage Fosse was perhaps best known for helming the film version of CABARET & creating the musical CHICAGO Age Rating 15 ...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2016 MAN BOOKER PRIZENine men Each of them at a different stage of life each of them away from home & each of them striving
- in the suburbs of Prague beside a Belgian motorway in a cheap Cypriot hotel
- to understand just what it means to be alive here & now Tracing an arc from the spring of youth to the winter of old age All That Man Is brings these separate lives together to show us men as they are
- ludicrous & inarticulate shocking & despicable; vital pitiable hilarious & full of heartfelt longing & as the years chase them down the stakes become bewilderingly high in this piercing portrayal of 21st-century manhood


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All That Remains
- Madness Music CD Track Listings Disc 1 1 Safe House 2 Madness 3 Nothing I Can Do 4 If I&m Honest 5 Halo 6 Louder
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THE TOP THREE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING NOVEL FROM CARRIE HOPE FLETCHER THE STAR OF THE ADDAMS FAMILY MUSICAL! A story of love food & a little bit of magic All That She Can See is an enchanting & beautiful novel that&s guaranteed to be the most magical story you&ll read all year Feelings are part of life
- feelings are life If you take away what people feel you take away anything meaningful Wanting to diminish the evil in this world is a good cause one I have fought for the majority of my life but not like this Cherry has a hidden talent She can see things other people can&t & she decided a long time ago to use this skill to help others As far as the rest of the town is concerned she&s simply the kind-hearted young woman who runs the local bakery but in private she uses her gift to add something special to her cakes so that after just one mouthful the townspeople start to feel better about their lives They don&t know why they&re drawn to Cherry&s bakery
- they just know that they&re safe there & that&s how Cherry likes it She can help them in secret & no one will ever need to know the truth behind her gift & then Chase turns up & threatens to undo all the good Cherry has done Because it turns out she&s not the only one who can see what she sees All That She Can See

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The Top Three Sunday Times bestselling novel from Carrie Hope Fletcher the author of On the Other Side A story of love food & a little bit of magic All That She Can See is an enchanting & beautiful novel that&s guaranteed to be the most magical story you&ll read all year Feelings are part of life
- feelings are life If you take away what people feel you take away anything meaningful Wanting to diminish the evil in this world is a good cause one I have fought for the majority of my life but not like this Cherry has a hidden talent She can see things other people can&t & she decided a long time ago to use this skill to help others As far as the rest of the town is concerned she&s simply the kind-hearted young woman who runs the local bakery but in private she uses her gift to add something special to her cakes so that after just one mouthful the townspeople start to feel better about their lives They don&t know why they&re drawn to Cherry&s bakery
- they just know that they&re safe there & that&s how Cherry likes it She can help them in secret & no one will ever need to know the truth behind her gift & then Chase turns up & threatens to undo all the good Cherry has done Because it turns out she&s not the only one who can see what she sees

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What if you had the chance to re-imagine your past? Every night Marc Laurent an American taken hostage in Pakistan is bound & blindfolded & every night a woman he knows only as Josephine comes to visit him At first her questions are mercenary who will pay for his release? But when Marc can offer no name she asks him an even more difficult question why didn't he go home for his daughter's funeralso begins a strange & yet comforting nightly ritual Josephine tells Marc stories about what might have happened had Claire not been murdered In turn Marc begins to tell his own in which his daughter is still alive Soon neither Marc nor Josephine are sure which stories are true & which are imagined or even if it matters & as they unfold
- on a journey across America into the past & into a future that may never come
- father & daughter start to find their way toward understanding each other once again Lyrical seductive & utterly compelling Daniel Lowe's debut novel All That's Left To Tell is a story of second chances & the stories we tell to make sense of ourselves

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WINNER OF BEST NOVEL IN 2016 NEBULA AWARDSFINALIST FOR BEST NOVEL IN THE 2017 HUGO AWARDSPatricia is a witch who can communicate with animals Laurence is a mad scientist & inventor of the two-second time machine As teenagers they gravitate towards one another sharing in the horrors of growing up weird but their lives take different paths When they meet again as adults Laurence is an engineering genius trying to save the world-and live up to his reputation-in near-future San Francisco Meanwhile Patricia is a graduate of Eltisley Maze the hidden academy for the magically gifted working very hard to prove herself to her fellow magicians & secretly repair the earth's ever growing ailments As they attempt to save our future Laurence & Patricia's shared past pulls them back together & though they come from different worlds when they collide the witch & the scientist will discover that maybe they understand each other better than anyone ...

Jake Whyte is the sole resident of an old farmhouse on an unnamed British island a place of ceaseless rains & battering winds It's just her her untamed companion Dog & a flock of sheep Which is how she wanted it to be But something is coming for the sheep
- every few nights it picks one off leaves it in rags It could be anything There are foxes in the woods a strange boy & a strange man rumours of an obscure formidable beast & there is Jake's unknown past perhaps breaking into the present a story hidden thousands of miles away & years ago in a landscape of different colour & sound a story held in the scars that stripe her back Winner of the Miles Franklin Award Winner of the Encore Award Winner of the Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Award Shortlisted for the Costa Novel Prize Shortlisted for the James Tait Black Memorial Prize Longlisted for the Bailey's Women's Prize for Fiction
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